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The Edge
The Edge is guitarist of Irish chincore group U2. He is also a good ol' superhero and professional wrestler as well as the inventor of Awesomeness Gayness. The Edge has gone through a lot of aliases such as The LEdge, The Spike, The Lotus, The Sting, Coolman, The Cool, The Heath LEdger, The Joe Satriani, The Police, The Phenomenon, Sonic The HEdgehog and Peter Criss The SlEdgehammer.
The Edge's nickname was created when he was 12 years old. He named himself Edge and stroked his chin to an amazing size. He currently ONLY uses 5 second poses and if he didn't have one he would be booed off stage. He aligns him self with fellow awesome people who screw other people over like Randy Orton
The Edge has so much hair on his head that the world will cease to exist if he takes his beanie off.
The Edge vs. The Pink Floyd[edit]
The Edge is the official inventor of the 5 Second Pose despite Adult Contemporary musicians Pink Floyd having tried to claim the idea theirs. Researchers and real scientists have come to the conclusion that Edge originated this trend but never the less the legal dispute has lasted for centuries now and Pink Floyd have claimed that they will not rest until they have full rights of the craze. Syd Barret said "AAAAAAAAA!" on the matter. Many have pointed out the fact that Pink Floyd where making music many years before Edge but this has just raised more questions on the authenticy of Pink Floyds music.
Sound samples for your own judgement.
The Edge - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (1987) (with Bono on tamborine)
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1) (1979)
It is suspected that The Edge actually wrote some of Pink Floyds material and members Pink Floyd have been misattributed writers of their music. It was found in 36 BC that in fact Edge had written Another Brick In The Wall and originally called it Another Brick in LALALALALALALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NOOOOOO HE DOESN'T EXIST, NEVER DID EXIST YOU NEVER HEARD OF HIM EVER's head
Dave Evans[edit]
During the day The Edge wears his disguise under the name of Dave Evans. After removing the cap, wearing tacky glasses and dressed in a suit The Edge is unrecognaizable not only to the public but even his fellow superhero Bono wasn't able to recognize him.
"I was like walkin' and this bloke comes up to me and says his name's Dave. And I'm like let's go save some starvin' children lad."
In Metropolis, The Edge (as Dave Evans) works as a reporter at the Planet, "a great metropolitan newspaper" which allows him to keep track of ongoing events where he might be of help. Largely working on his own, his identity is easily kept secret. Fellow reporter Lois Lane became the object of Dave's/The Edge's romantic affection. Lois' affection for The Edge and her rejection of Dave's clumsy advances have been a recurring theme in The Edge's comics, television, and movies...
The Chin[edit]
(Wrestler) Edge's Chin is equally matched with Chuck Norris' beardfist. He really enjoys spearing woman/men/transvestites with his chin although it is chinflected by the Chin/face of the Great Khali who's chin is far superior to all except the great foot of Chuck Norris.
As with all superheros The Edge pussied out and married to an irrelevant person and produced his superhero daughter trio Hollie, Arran and Blue Angel. Although Blue Angel obviously being the most powerful off them all the trio can join into an amazing tri-delta attack that shrieks like a guitar. Some say they're harpies other say they're sirens but due to the fact that no one has lived their horrid voices no one really knows what they look like.
The Edge beat the following people[edit]
Mitchell, Elisha (PhD)[edit]
As a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill he discovered the height of Mt. Mitchell. Mt. Mitchell is the highest point east of the Mississippi River. When Elisha Mitchell returned to verify his earlier measurements The Edge got the better of him and Elisha Mitchell fell to his death in 1857.
Antoine Rakamora[edit]
Tony Rockyhorror was giving Mia Wallace a foot rub when her husband, Marcellus Wallace walked in. Unfortunately for Antoine, Mr. Wallace brought the Edge along with him. The result was Tony getting thrown through the roof of a greenhouse, in which he got buttraped by a cactus.
Gilbert, Jessie (chessplayer)[edit]
A British teenage chess champion has fallen to her death as she sleepwalked straight from The Edge of an eighth-floor hotel room.
Joker, The (villain)[edit]
He was ultimately defeated by The Edge when he fell to his death from a church tower.
Mike Wallace's (journalist) 19 year old son.[edit]
The death of his 19-year-old son, Peter, who fell to his death off The Edge of a cliff in Greece in 1962 on summer holiday from Yale
Gruber, Hans (megalomaniac)[edit]
Fell to his death from the 32nd floor of the Nakatomi tower while playing leapfrog with John McClane and The Edge.
Hart, Owen (Canadian wrestler)[edit]
Hart fell to his death in Kansas City, Missouri on May 23, 1999, during the WWF's Over The Edge PPV event. Edge then pinned his corpse after cashing in his "Singles Push in the Bank" contract.
Gale, Philip (scientist & musician)[edit]
Gale fell to his death from a classroom window on the fifteenth floor of a building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. He had no idea how close to The Edge he was.
Cena, John (Black man, PhD in thugonomics)[edit]
Cena died after The Edge's Penis threw him to a 9000-watt light. "Hey that was m-" - Big Show | "Shut the fuck up!" -Edge
Thwagger Thwoaring Eagle[edit]
Edge killed the Thwagger Thwoaring Eagle after a Spear. Edge then tried to kill PETA officials who tried to arrest him.
Things Edge Likes to do in WWE[edit]
- Pose for 5 seconds
- Climb ladders only to fall off them 5 seconds later
- Hit people with chairs when they are sleeping
- Run into people, apparentally this is called a spear
- Run into people off a ladder, defying the laws of gravity and physics
- Destroy lives in general
- Pull his hair back and show off those pearly whites!
- Stamp his feet
- Grind his teeth
- Steal Triple H's stuff
- Scratch his head and look menacing
- Brag about stuff he's never done to John Cena
- Stroke his chin, and beard
- Put head up and look down
- Go Crazy
- Make out with Lita
- Get dumped by Lita
- Make out with Vickie Guerrero
- Wish he was still making out with Lita
- Make Lita retire
- Taunt
- Marry fat women just to use their power
- Mumble things to their faces while spitting in rage so it sounds like "YOU SUNCSHS OF AAR BITSCHS!"
- Cheat to win agianst Balltista
- Win all ladder matches ever in existance. "Wait...what about?" -John Cena | "Shut up! YOU SUNCSHS OF AAR BITSCHS!" -Edge
- Win at Wrestlemnia. "Wait...what about?" -Mr. Kennedy, Undertaker, Cena and Jericho | "Shut up! YOU SUNCSHS OF AAR BITSCHS!" -Edge
- Wreck Homes
- Laugh at people he just screwed over
- Reek of Awesomenessgayness
- Bore people with countless feuds with The Undertaker, John Cena, Jeff Hardy and Batista
- Make out with Vicky, but thats because he gets paid a lot
- Look worried when he has to, then laugh and stroke his chin again
- Ask J.R. where he got those fantastic shoes
- Shake his head when he talks
- Scream as if he is Chris Jericho circa non-pussy years
- Stroke his hair to make people notice his hairdo which was clearly the inspiration of Chuck Norris
- Squint
- Steal boyfriends
- Have sex celebrations in front of billions of people around the world on National Television
- Hump the ring canvas while thinking of Big Show.
- Switch WWE brands
- Capturing tag team gold a record 12 times
- Grow a beard
- Shave his beard
- Screw The Undertaker over
- Get screwed by The Undertaker
- Run through smoke
- Sandwich people's heads with chairs{non gay way}
- Sandwich chairs with people's heads{really non gay way}
- Wear a trench coat like a child molester
- Blow chunks while Christian holds his nuts
- Getting genital warts (Genital Warts Rule!)
- Drink sodas (Sodas Rule!)
- Beat up black men from
AfricaJamaica - Steal John Cena's championships from elimination chambers.
- Make his wife wear the pants in the familyThreesomes
- Watch fat men fuck his wife
- Ignore his "brother's" return
- Brag about beating Cena in front of Chris Jericho
- Make Jeff Hardy Sandwiches on ladder bread{oh who am i kidding}
- Divorce his wife
- Get himself injured by Jeff Hardy: Drug Addict
- Win tag-team matches with his BFFs Chris Jericho, Hulk Hogan and Kurt Angle
- Insult moronic marks in a manner where by it is impossible to make a comeback
- Return to the WWE after the internet community told him to do so
- Make Chris Jericho cry like a little baby
- Eat Slim Jims
- Call Heath Slater a Wendy-looking ginger Edge-wannabe
- Beat up laptops with a steel chair
- Rid the WWE of everything that is stupid
- Spear the Thwagger Thoaring Eagle
- Make Jack Stripper Angry about Pwning the Thwagger Thoaring Eagle
- Edgecates as sharpshooting even if it's not in tribute of Bret Hart, eh?
- Destroy pure-Mexicans' yelling destiny before fuck up something in his spine and quit.
- Help his brother for the championship title vacated by him.
Musical Endeavours[edit]
Edge has in fact been in a "family" band with his "brother" Christian Cage. They lasted about 15 years but only ever recorded 3 songs over 2 albums.Their first album, 'Long Live the Zoo' (released as iViva El Kazoo! in Mexico, where they personally requested it was to be released) was a successful chart topper including 2 songs and a brief interlude separating them. These songs were "You think you know me" and "The Game", separated by the interlude "Oh don't get mad, we can play your music too". Their second album was recorded as a symphony, only using percussion and vocals. The album was released as "For the Benefit of Those With Flash Photography" and only went for 5 seconds. The song on the album came to be known as the 'Conchairto' and consisted of a loud crack of a skull between 2 steel chairs. Edge then later released this as an extended solo piece on multiple occasions. These were compiled into an album known as "Conchairto: A complete anthology". It reached number 1 on the Billboard charts and stayed at the top before it was roundhouse kicked by Chuck Norris all the way out of the charts.

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text: Dear Beowulfers Did anybody ever get Gigabit Ethernet NICs to work on the Tyan Tiger S2466-4M motherboards under Linux? If so, I would appreciate any words of wisdom about which NICs work, the appropriate BIOS settings, which PCI slots to use, etc. *** I flashed the Tyan S2466-4M BIOS to the latest version, V4.06 (super, final 2003 edition). I need to set this head node up with two GigE ports. I have two Intel 82543 Fiber Gigabit Ethernet PCI adapters, which use the e1000 driver. However, I would happily use other NICs and drivers, anything that works, including copper based GigE. *** I googled up to find tips and solutions, and I tried a number of different combinations: disabling the onboard 3Com Ethernet 100 port with a jumper; placing the NICs on the PCI-64 and on the PCI-32 slots; disabling the BIOS "option RAM scan" on the NICs' PCI slots; disabling USB on BIOS; trying one NIC at a time; etc. However, so far no game. The NICs are recognized, link LEDs light up, ping works, but the system seems to be unstable, ifdown/ifup hangs, hence the system hangs when it tries to take down the GigE ports during shutdown. Moreover, I get many of this kernel message on dmesg: Warning: kfree_skb on hard IRQ f88e47b2 *** This is the head node of our old Linux NetworX cluster. The original head node motherboard, ASUS A7M266, supported the aforementioned Intel NICs. Unfortunately it seems to have died. I bought an used-but-functional Tyan S2466-4M board on E-Bay as a replacement. These S2466-4M boards seem to have been very popular on servers and Beowulfs. It sounded to me as a good choice. After all, we have this board on all compute nodes. The compute nodes don't have GigE, only the onboard 3Com Ethernet 100 for service and I/O, plus Myrinet-2000 for MPI. They have been working fine for 8 years now. *** Thank you. Happy Holidays! Gus Correa --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gustavo Correa Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University Palisades, NY, 10964-8000 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------


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PAN (Peroxyacytyl nitrate) - C2H3O5N
PAN (Peroxyacytyl nitrate) is a toxic chemical that is an important component of smog. PAN is a gas at normal temperatures and pressures. Its chemical formula is C2H3O5N. PAN molecules are composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen atoms.
PAN forms via the combination of other compounds in the presence of sunlight. One component of PAN is nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which comes from the exhausts of fossil fuel-burning cars and trucks, coal-burning power plants, and other industrial processes. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), released to the air as fumes from gasoline, paint, solvents, and pesticides, comprise a second set of ingredients that go into the making of PAN. A series of reactions transform VOCs into other compounds. These compounds then combine with oxygen and nitrogen dioxide to form PAN. Energy from sunlight helps drive these chemical reactions via a process called photodissociation. Ozone and airborne particulates are released as byproducts during the creation of PAN.
PAN is highly reactive and is a strong oxidizing agent. It is a powerful eye irritant and is also harmful to the respiratory system. At high concentrations it is quite damaging to plant materials, which it "burns" in a chemical reaction akin to slow-motion combustion.


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text: O K I have made/painted a few things ( shoulder & knee armor ) , toe spikes and an ammo belt , but I have no expirience in this area . A few months ago I purchased a Ruffkin gauntlet kit ( see pics ) and have made/ purchased some accesseries for them . I have a couple of gauntlet sets ( Ebay) which I'm not 100% happy with , so I figured I would start from scratch and with the help of the TDH community ( all you all knowing all seeing experts ) I would give it a try . Let me start buy saying , I dont have an air brush so I need to use ready available paints etc . There are many questions and I need the step by step , from scratch to the end .Do I go topical or layered with liquid mask as I did with the knee & sholder armor ( see pic )?How do I prep the styrene? Do I need to prime ? Any & all advice would be MOST appreciated .I'm sure this has been done over and over but ....... Thanks people !


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"Coherent Control of a Semiconductor Charge Qubit."
Background:Yuliya Dovzhenko received a BA in physics with high honors from Princeton University in 2012, along with a Certificate in Applications of Computing. Her interests include condensed matter physics and quantum computation. While at Princeton, she conducted research in Prof. Jason Petta's lab, focusing on quantum control of semiconductor quantum bits.
Yuliya's project investigated quantum coherence of a single charge trapped in a gallium arsenide double quantum dot. She demonstrated coherent multi-pulse control of a semiconductor charge qubit, which is an essential requirement for performing dynamic decoupling to battle charge noise. She also worked on developing spin qubit devices in silicon/silicon-germanium heterostructures, which can be isotopically purified to eliminate the hyperfine interaction. Yuliya's work resulted in four publications, including two rapid communications in Physical Review B. She is the recipient of the Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics from Princeton University.
Yuliya is currently working towards a PhD in physics at Harvard University. Her research concerns quantum computation using spins of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond.
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One of the things I really like about family camping is cooking. I don't get to cook many meals during the week, so when we are camping, I like to make up for that by getting creative with our camping meals. Getting creative doesn't mean spending a lot of time on meal preparation, though. Here are some great camping recipes that don't take a lot of time to prepare.
Fish Tacos
Usually, when you think of fish tacos, you think fried fish. They're just a good – maybe even better, with grilled fish, though. Fish grills-up fast, usually about 4-minutes per side, so it is fast and easy to load everybody up with fish tacos, for lunch or dinner.
1 bag shredded cabbage
1 bag corn tortillas
1 lbs. of any firm fish
Top with your favorite salsa or spicy tartar sauce
Bonus tip: Squeeze a fresh lime over the cabbage and add an avocado slice, or two.
I have talked about pizza before, because it's one of our favorite camping meals and it's really easy to make. We usually cheat and pickup some pizzas at Trader Joe's, because they are really convenient and are actually good. Sometimes we make our own, though, which is a lot of fun for the kids.
Pizza crust, such as Boboli
Tomato sauce
Sliced pepperoni
Favorite veggies, sliced at home and packed in a resealable bag
Bonus tip: If you are cooking your pizza on an open grill, the vegetables will not get cooked before the crust is done. For some people, crispy vegetables on their pizza is just fine, but if that's not for you then steam your vegetables in a foil pouch before topping the pizza with them.
BBQ Chicken
Always a favorite, chicken grills-up great and it's a quick meal to make. Cutting-up a chicken at the campsite is a messy affair, so we do that at home and package it up in 1-gallon resealable bags (and freeze them, if it is going to be one of our day 3 or 4 meals). At home, I always make my own bbq sauce, but for camping we buy jar so that we don't have to worry about packaging and spoilage. Trader Joe's is one of our favorites – and one of the few bbq sauces on the market that doesn't use high-fructose corn syrup.
Bonus tip: Pack a brush for brushing-on the bbq sauce.
Hamburgers & hotdogs
Seriously, Roy, hamburgers and hotdogs? I know this is the most common camping meal there is, but there is a reason for that: Kids lover hamburgers and hotdogs and they are quick and easy to make. You don't have to settle for the kids-meal version, though. Substitute spicy sausage for the hotdogs, jazz-up your hamburgers with onions, mushrooms and all the fixin's.
Bonus tip: After you flip those burgers and hotdogs, throw the buns on the grill and toast them.
If hamburgers and hotdogs are the great American outdoor classic, then grilled skirt steak on a tortilla is the Latin American equivalent. Skirt steak is thin, so it grills-up fast, but it's tough so you need to marinate it for 24-hours before your trip. Everybody has their favorite marinades – I like to start with a bottle of Corona or Pacifica beer and a cup of fresh lime juice. From there, it's just a matter of what I have in the pantry – cayenne or jalapeño pepper, a dash of oregano, several cloves of garlic – it's all good.
1 lbs. skirt steak
1 bag tortillas
2 bell peppers, sliced
1 medium onion, sliced
Bonus tip: Olive oil is not a camping staple for most people, but you will need it to stir-fry the onions and peppers for your fajitas.
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By HarlemGal for HarlemCondoLife
It is that time of year where New York Magazine profiles some of the upcoming neighborhoods for 2011. In this week's edition (April 3), they list 20 of The Next Big Neighborhoods in New York City and two Harlem sections made the list!
A big congrats to Marcus Garvey Park. This area located in Central Harlem was ranked fourth out of 20. NYMag says Marcus Garvey Park "is undergoing a several million dollar renovation, including smoothed-out sidewalks and the transformation of its existing bandshell into a state-of-the-art amphitheater." In addition to park renovations, several buildings have sprung up, such as 5th on the Park, located at Fifth Avenue and 120th Street; and "the recently constructed Windows on 123, a pair of buildings graced with limestone-balconied apartments and full-floor lofts."
Hamilton Heights located in West Harlem, finishes out the list placing 20th on the list.
Another notable mention, is Manhattan Valley, which is right below Harlem on the Westside. They were ranked second out of 20.


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By Cody Choi
Cody Choi, visual artist and cultural theorist was born in Seoul in 1961. He attended Korea University Sociology major, Korea and Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, USA. He taught at New York University, New York, USA from 1994 - 2004 and Hongik University, Seoul, Korea from 2004 - 2011. He currently works in Seoul Korea. His artwork has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in Europe, USA and Asia. His exhibitions include retrospective " Cody Choi: Culture Cuts" traveling in European from 2015 - 2017 and 2017 Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion. He is the author and co-author of "Cody Choi: Culture Cuts, König books, Germany, 2015", "Topography of 20th Century Culture. Culturegrapher, Korea, 2010", "Topography of Contemporary Culture. Culturegrapher, Korea, 2006", "Topography of 20th Century Culture for Understanding Contemporary Culture. Ahn Graphics, Korea, 2006", "Cultural Shift Hatter: Cody Choi 1986-2003, Paradise Media Press, Korea, 2003", "Cody Choi Fairwell to the 20th Century, Deitch Projects, New York, 1998"


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Like MD Anderson's aggressive pricing for Sean Recchi's stay, Sloan-Kettering's markup on drugs like the Flebogamma given to Alan A. is one reason cancer care is so profitable. In 2011, the hospital and research institution of Sloan-Kettering had an operating profit of $406 million even after everything it spent on research and the education of a small army of young cancer doctors.
The cash flow comes from more than just drug markups. It also comes from the high pricing enabled by a great brand and an enterprise that has learned how to expand the reach of its brand.
One of Sloan-Kettering's major revenue sources is the outpatient clinics it has been opening around New York City in recent years so that patients don't have to travel to the busy Upper East Side of Manhattan for the kind of treatments Alan A. gets every six weeks. There is a cancer-screening and treatment outpost (run in partnership with Ralph Lauren's foundation) in Harlem and a chemotherapy clinic in Brooklyn, and clinical-care facilities can also be found in five of the New York City metropolitan area's wealthier suburbs, such as Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County, New York, and Basking Ridge, N.J. A sixth is being constructed in Harrison, another wealthy Westchester town.
Building on the deserved allure of the Sloan-Kettering brand, these outposts eat into the profits of area hospitals, which would otherwise be providing the same high-margin outpatient cancer care either on the basis of what their own doctors prescribed or according to instructions from Sloan-Kettering's specialists. "Sloan-Kettering can open these clinics and treat people 9 to 5 at their [high] rates, and because they've got the brand name, they'll be very successful because they don't have to run a 24/7 operation," complains the president of one hospital in a wealthy suburb north of New York City. "But if those patients need help at midnight on Saturday, they'll end up in our emergency room." That may be true, but Sloan-Kettering's foray beyond the Upper East Side of Manhattan also represents a rare outbreak of competition in the current hospital marketplace.
Sloan-Kettering may be fishing for business in these wealthy suburbs, but it does have a financial-aid process that is both proactive and well publicized to patients seeking care. It provides discounts of varying amounts for those who are uninsured or underinsured and have incomes of less than 500% above the poverty line, which comes out to about $115,000 a year for a family of four. Counselors also help patients get other aid from the state or local government, from research programs or, as happened with Sean Recchi in Ohio, from drug companies.
That still leaves out many people, especially the uninsured or underinsured whose incomes are above $115,000 but well below what they would pay for treatment at Sloan-Kettering. And it undoubtedly leaves others struggling just to meet the co-pays required even with good insurance. Sloan-Kettering chief operating officer John Gunn says patients not formally in the financial-assistance program might still be offered discounts of some kind and that only "2% or 3% of our patients pay our full list prices"—chargemaster prices that he acknowledges are high "because we have better outcomes."
Most of those asked to pay chargemaster rates, Gunn adds, are "wealthy foreigners, whom we screen and tell in advance what it's likely to cost them." Insurance companies negotiate discounts off of Sloan-Kettering's chargemaster prices, but Gunn acknowledges that his hospital can drive a hard bargain because insurers want "to make sure we are in" their network.
That kind of brand strength produces not only lavish cash flow but also lavish incomes for the nondoctors who work to generate it. Six Sloan-Kettering administrators made salaries of over $1 million in 2010, the most recent year for which the hospital filed its nonprofit tax return. (The 2011 return is "on extension," says Gunn, who was paid $1,531,991 in 2010.) Including those six, 14 made over $500,000.
Compared with their peers at equally venerable nonprofits, these executives are comfortably ensconced in a medical ecosystem that's in a world of its own. For example, Sloan-Kettering listed two development-office executives, or fundraisers, as making $1,483,000 and $844,000. Another venerable New York nonprofit that mines the same field for donors—the Metropolitan Museum of Art—pays its top development officer $345,000. Harvard pays its chief fundraiser $392,000. Asked why salaries at Sloan-Kettering are so much higher than those at nonprofits like the Met and Harvard, Gunn replies, "All of us hospitals have the same compensation consultants, so I guess it's a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Whatever the origins of the compensation rates, the prospectus that Sloan-Kettering's bankers and lawyers used to sell the bonds that helped finance those suburban clinics struck a tone that is at odds with the daily sight of men and women rushing through the halls of Sloan-Kettering doing God's work. The halls may be sprinkled with cheerful posters aimed at patients, but the prospectus is sprinkled with phrases like market share, improved pricing and rate and volume increases. Then again, the same prospectus describes the core of the business this way: "higher five-year survival rates for cancer patients as compared to other institutions."


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Since we have this Firewall discussion I would like to hear some OpenBSD users talk about their OpenBSD firewalls. Free or Net BSD people are welcome to join in too.
i have no opinion on this subject i just wanted to say this was cute.. Microsoft, have you been assimilated today ? ^_^ _NetSyn_
[shadow]i have a herd of 1337 sheep[/shadow] Worth should be judged on quality... Not apperance... Anyone can sell you **** inside a pretty box.. The only real gift then is the box..
Like to but not running one on that ux. Focmaester do you run one?
I used to have a sparc running OpenBSD, now that I´m getting adsl I´m configuring a old i386 box as a firewall. Will test it out soon. Been using OpenBSD for almost 2 years now. Offcourse, it´s not as popular as FreeBSD or NetbSD but it makes a good firewall and secure OS.
By saying openbsd firewall, I am assuming you mean IPF. I have been using IPF on both openbsd and freebsd for quite some time now, and it is awesome. Definately just as good as any other firewall IMHO. I actually like IPF better than IPCHAINS or IPTABLES because the rules are written in plain english and are easier to understand.
IPF yes, but some ppl (Mrwall aka etsh) argue that it isn´t all that good. I´m waiting for a comment on that.
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The Pentagon budget the Obama administration unveiled this week calls for quadrupling spending on efforts to counter Russia.
The money would move more troops, tanks, and artillery into position near the Russia border. This last Obama budget would also fund another installment in a $1 trillion and 30-year plan to "modernize" our nuclear arsenal with new land-based missiles, bombers, and submarines.
If Congress supports the White House's request, this budget would have our country spending more, adjusting for inflation, than we did during most of the Cold War. The Republican-controlled Congress wants to add even more.
Sounds like we're gearing up for a reboot of that war, doesn't it? Here are six reasons why this is a big mistake.
1. It's what Putin wants.
As the Russian economy squeezes the lives of Russian citizens ever tighter, Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing what Russia's strongmen leaders have always done: Distract them with dreams of a return to their imperial past. Appeal to their centuries-old sense of insecurity about external threats, whose only cure is militarism. What plays into this narrative best? The U.S. and NATO amassing troops on their border.
2. It's what Pentagon contractors want.
Twenty-five years after the Soviet empire collapsed, the U.S. military remains built for confrontations with "great powers." As the Pentagon conceives it, the fight against ISIS is relatively cheap, and requires flexibility that doesn't fit well with the nice long procurement cycles the contractors favor. ISIS has no fighter jets, a fact that complicates the sales pitch for the $1.5 trillion dollar F-35 fighter jet program. A new Cold War would make that job a lot easier.
3. Contrary to popular belief, the Reagan military build-up didn't bring the Soviet Union to its knees.
The idea that it did is one of the big myths of the late 20th century. It's refuted by the guy who would actually know: the last Soviet leader, who presided over its military stand-down. Mikhail Gorbachev has said repeatedly in retirement that the buildup made it harder to convince his hardliners that they didn't need to respond in kind, but could negotiate reductions in the nuclear arsenal. It prolonged, rather than ended, the Cold War.
4. We can't afford it.
We're now spending more than the next 13 countries put together, more than three times as much as China, and nine times as much as Russia. Meanwhile the water crisis in Flint, Michigan points to the consequences of our neglect of our country's infrastructure. According to the National Priorities Project, foregoing the cost of beefing up our nuclear arsenal for one year would enable the U.S. to send nearly 600,000 more students to college for four years. Instead we want to spend more to rekindle the Cold War?
5. It'll undermine the most significant diplomatic success in recent years.
The international agreement preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon for years to come would not have been possible without Russia's support. It was one of the rare bright spots in U.S.-Russian relations. It's something to build on. Putting troops and artillery back on the Russian border will threaten this tenuous progress.
6. It could trigger a nuclear holocaust.
Following the end of the Cold War — which we may soon have to call the first Cold War — the United States and Russia negotiated steep cuts in each country's nuclear arsenal, though there are still enough on both sides to destroy the world many times over. As signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, they committed to getting to zero. They also cooperated for years on securing stockpiles of nuclear materials around the world to keep them out of terrorist hands. That progress is now stalled, as Washington pursues its "modernization."
No other fact threatens our very existence the way this one does. Do we really want to return to the days when these weapons were on hair-trigger alert, and the countries possessing them considered themselves at war? President Barack Obama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on the strength of his commitment to nuclear disarmament, should know better.
Link to original article from Common Dreams


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Intel just launched the latest Haswell platform this June, PC and NB brand keep refreshing their product lines, the Notebook platform runs faster than before,
there are lots of new platform products in the market right now. MSI focused on the high performance and gaming platform, and refreshed very fast too.
MSI NB main product line is Gaming series, they also come out latest GE40 as 14" gaming laptop.
For Top Level still keep GT70 and GT60, High Performance gaming will be GE70, GE60 and GE40.
Since MSI performance gaming notebooks are same price range as regular high end notebooks,
but they still presents more features and performance advantages on gaming notebooks field.
This time I got GE60 2OE, the latest performance level gaming notebook.
The A cover looks like Dragon beard, will reflect different color style with different angles.
Top cover used glossy cover design, the good point is vivid and looks shinning,
the bad part is easy to scratch. They use laser reflect and red lines to increase the design style and speedy feeling.
Inside accessories
Driver CD, quick manual, clean up cloth and 2 years warranty card.
Up side one is gaming style mouse, it's optical designed, but still good positioning on cloth,
the red light will breath when use, handling feeling is also good, it will be better if enhance to laser mouse.
Below is the battery with 4400mAH 6 cell design.
Adaptor was made by Delta, it's good quality one from power supply brands, up to 120W, this one is slimmer than regular 120W adaptors, only 2.5cm.
The placement of palm rest side
SteelSeries keyboard gives good response feeling when using, also presents higher durability, but GT series keyboard is even better than GE series.
Left 1 button "Cooler Boost" is turbo cooling fan function, left 2 button is keyboard backlit enable with vivid blue light.
The holes on the up side comes with 2 channel speakers.
The platform around keyboard used metallic material design, special cutting makes the shape looks better.
Metal cover gives better touch feeling, and the signal lights at bottom side, the SD card reader on the right side.
On the left side.
Kensington lock\power input\USB 2.0\HDMI\2x USB 3.0\Line out\Line in\Headphone-out
Here comes the sound quality experience, this is objective point of view, compared with other notebooks at same level.
The sound is loud when adjust the volume to 50%, so don't need to worry about the volume small problem.
High frequency - Not too sharp, rich detail with high class sound level.
Mid frequency - Transparent sound stage, it will be better if the sound could be stronger.
Low frequency - Good present on mid-low frequency, but no subwoofer means the sound is not so powerful as GT series with subwoofer.
GE60 used total 4 speakers with 2 channels stereo, good performance on the mid and high frequency,
also good on the sound stage and overall sound field. It's not like GT series comes with subwoofer, so the bass and low frequency was not so strong.
Foy my personal opinion, GE is good for music and GT is better for movies.
From left, BD Combo / DVD Super Multi\USB2.0\D-SUB\RJ45 LAN


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Populism in Brussels? How to solve the Balkan asylum crisis
By Gerald Knaus and Alexandra Stiglmayer
Is the EU edging closer to making a fundamental and strategic mistake by restoring the visa requirement for citizens of the Western Balkans?
At this moment the interior ministers of six EU countries - Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden - are pushing for a reversal of the most significant decision made in the past decade to further the European integration of the Western Balkans. The issue is also on the agenda of the justice and home affairs council on 25/26 October this week.
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Such a decision would be a bad blow to the EU's credibility in southeast Europe. It would also be deeply unfair to the citizens in the countries concerned. Reintroducing visa requirements for citizens of Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro or Bosnia would also signal that other countries with roadmaps or visa liberalisation talks - from Kosovo to Turkey to Moldova - stand no real chance of success.
How did the EU get to this point? What would be the implications of such a step for the EU and the region? And how can the EU solve its own legitimate concerns without reintroducing visas?
To answer these questions, one must first understand the nature of the acute crisis that is pushing (some) EU interior ministers to advocate such measures.
After the EU lifted the Schengen visa requirement for Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro in December 2009, thousands of Serbians and Macedonians travelled to the EU to submit asylum claims. Already by 2010, Serbia became the country with the third-largest number of claims - almost 18,000 - in the EU; citizens from small Macedonia alone filed 7,550 claims.
Although only three EU countries were affected - Germany, Sweden and Belgium, with Luxembourg becoming a fourth target in 2011 - almost immediately there were warnings that unless Balkan leaders find ways to "solve" the asylum problem, the EU might have to reverse its decision to allow Balkan citizens visa-free travel.
Since then the situation has deteriorated further. The case of Germany illustrates the dynamic. In 2010, citizens of Serbia and Macedonia made 10,300 asylum requests in Germany. In 2011 the number was 8,500. However, in September 2012 the number of Serbian and Macedonian citizens submitting asylum requests reached 4,000 in one month.
This was a record and the reaction in Germany was predictable. Bild, Germany's largest tabloid, picked up the issue. German interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich declared: "The massive inflow of Serbian and Macedonian nationals must be stopped without delay." Friedrich told Bild Zeitung that "We have to send a clear signal to the relevant countries: people who are really persecuted will be accepted, economic refugees won't."
In the first six months of this year, the recognition rate of claims in Germany was close to zero. Of some 5,000 asylum claims which were examined in this period, only 11 persons received humanitarian protection (which is not political asylum and is granted due to serious medical problems). Yet the number of applications continues to rise.
Why so many applications?
Why are Serbian and Macedonian citizens, who are not persecuted in their countries, applying for asylum in Germany despite the clear sign that they have little chance of getting asylum? The explanation is obvious. In July 2012, the German Constitutional Court ruled that the benefits for all asylum seekers in Germany must be increased.
Usually, asylum seekers in Germany are accommodated in collective centres and receive food and clothes in kind. In the past a family of four also received a stipend of €120 a month.
The July ruling has increased that stipend to at least €420 a month. If the family has to purchase its food and clothing itself, it will now receive more than €1,100 a month. This is many times the average monthly income in Serbia and Macedonia. In Germany, the basic asylum procedure for Balkan nationals takes at least two-and-a-half months. Then a rejected asylum seeker appeals, which means he or she can stay on average another five months.
To understand what Germany would actually need to do to reduce the number of Balkan asylum applications, just look at its neighbours.
Last year in Austria, which is even closer to the Balkans and also has large communities of Balkan people, only 380 Balkan nationals asked for asylum. Austria had put all Western Balkan states on a list of "countries of safe origin." Today it decides on asylum claims of Balkan citizens in a week.
Germany could also look to the Netherlands.
A few years ago, the Netherlands reformed its asylum system and now resolves most claims, including those from Balkan citizens, in an expedited fashion (eight working days after a preparation period of a few days). If a rejected asylum seeker appeals a negative decision, the court decides within four weeks. The Netherlands registered 430 claims by Balkan citizens in 2011.
If the solution is obvious, it is also in the hands of concerned EU member states. Instead of advocating such solutions, however, which are in line with EU legislation and the UN Refugee Convention, the European Commission has put the blame on the governments of the Western Balkans.
On 15 October this year, the commission's spokesman for home affairs, Michele Cercone, explained once again that visa liberalisation for the Western Balkans "comes with huge responsibilities. It is more than time now for these countries, their authorities and their citizens, to prove they can handle this huge responsibility."
But what can Serb, Macedonian or Albanian politicians do to "act responsibly"? The commission demands that Balkan governments run "information awareness campaigns," carry out "exit controls" and "investigation of facilitators."
Information campaigns? The potential asylum seekers know that their chances to receive international protection are minimal, but they also know what the different asylum systems offer. Which information would prevent them from using the generous ones?
Facilitators largely do not exist since there is not much money to be made with cheap bus tickets to Berlin or Luxembourg.
The suggestion of "exit controls" is also insidious. As almost all the asylum seekers are Roma, it is hard to avoid ethnic profiling and open discrimination if this were systematically implemented. In fact one of the conditions for lifting the visa barrier was for the Balkan countries to provide access to travel and identity documents for all citizens including Roma and other minorities.
Safe countries of origin
The best way forward for reforming visa requirements would be for all countries benefiting from visa-free travel following a liberalisation process - which includes a focus on human rights - to be declared "safe countries of origin" at the EU level.
Under EU asylum legislation, claims from citizens originating in safe countries of origin can be prioritised and dealt with under an accelerated procedure, as is the case in Austria today.
In 1997, EU member states negotiated a protocol to the Amsterdam Treaty under which they agreed to treat each other as safe countries of origin.
The asylum procedures directive, which was adopted in late 2005, mentioned Romania and Bulgaria - not yet EU members at the time - as safe countries of origin. The same directive also allowed member states to compose their own lists of safe countries.
As long as the commission continues to advocate pointless measures, and member states refuse to address the underlying issue, which is generous asylum systems that can be abused, this problem cannot be solved. Nor would a suspension of visa-free travel work unless it is permanent. The only viable and effective solution would be for EU member states to reform their own systems.
EU interior ministers need to admit, and the European Commission needs to remind them, that for once it is not the Balkan countries which are failing.
The writers founded and run the European Stability Initiative, a think-tank that has closely followed the visa liberalisation process for the Western Balkans. www.whitelistproject.eu
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author's, not those of EUobserver.


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This is an infrared photograph of a man on a bed. Infrared photography gives a map of the heat distribution of an object from its radiation. The image is color coded from white for the hottest parts through to blue for the coldest.
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On the Sanisoft blog today Tarique Sani has posted about a method for using the CakePHP framework without a database to back it up.
We recently programmed a CakePHP app which relies solely on remote server talking Saleforce API for all data operations. The first challenge that we faced was how to prevent CakePHP from insisting on a database connection. The solution was simple enough and I never gave it much thought till the same question was brought up by more than one person on the CakePHP list. The solution involves creating a minimal dbo source file.
It's a simple three step process to follow - making the dbo source file, set it up as the default driver and tell CakePHP to $useTable = false.


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Monday, June 6, 2011
Waterfield Design's iPad 2 Suede Jacket Reviewed
Posted by Jason Dunn in "Laptop Thoughts Accessories" @ 09:00 AM
To watch in full screen 1080p, please click on the video title and go over to YouTube.
This is my review of the Waterfield Design iPad 2 Suede Jacket. It's a simple product that works exceptionally well - if you're looking for a simple sleeve for your iPad 2, this is an affordable, effective product. The Ultrasuede is extremely soft and will protect your iPad from scratches and scuffs - but of course won't protect it from anything more than that. The pouch on the back is handy for carrying a few iPad accessories, and with prices starting at $19, it's an affordable option. If you're looking for a simple, lightweight way to protect your iPad v1 or iPad v2 - with or without a Smart Cover - I highly recommend the iPad 2 Suede Jacket.
Jason Dunn owns and operates Thoughts Media Inc., a company dedicated to creating the best in online communities. He enjoys photography, mobile devices, blogging, digital media content creation/editing, and pretty much all technology. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with his lovely wife, his wonderful son Logan, and his sometimes obedient dog. He's surprised how much he uses his iPad 2.
Do you enjoy using new hardware, software and accessories, then sharing your experience with others? Then join us on the Thoughts Media Review Team! We're looking for individuals who find it fun to test new gear and give their honest opinions about the experience. It's a volunteer role with some great perks. Interested? Then click here for more information.


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RCMP are investigating a string of rental scams that have been targeting would-be renters in Kelowna.
The fraudsters are reportedly listing property for rent in the Kelowna area in which police believe they are currently renting through sites like AirBnb.
Posing as the property's owner, the scammer then lists the site online and shows the property to renters and then secures damage deposits. Come move-in day, the scam victims find the property is occupied. They are then unable to track down the scammer and are out their deposits.
READ MORE: Fireworks allegedly shot at Kelowna homeless encampment
Cpl. Meghan Foster with the Kelowna RCMP believe the scammer used a fake name during the rental frauds.
"The suspect male has allegedly provided the name of Tim Halyhart to the renters but we do not believe this to be the suspect male's true identity," said Foster.
"This investigation is on-going and our priority is to identify the suspect male in an effort to advance the investigation."
Halyhart is described as a black male between the ages of 23 and 30, five-foot-eleven and with a larger body build.
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Synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus) are one of at least 19 species of fireflies that live in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. They are the only species in America whose individuals can synchronize their flashing light patterns.
Fireflies (also called lightning bugs) are beetles. They take from one to two years to mature from larvae, but will live as adults for only about 21 days. While in the larval stage, the insects feed on snails and smaller insects. Once they transform into their adult form, they do not eat.
Most species produce a greenish-yellow light; one species has a bluish light. The males fly and flash and the usually stationary females respond with a flash. Peak flashing for synchronous fireflies in the park is normally within a two-week period in late May to mid-June.
No one is sure why the fireflies flash synchronously. Competition between males may be one reason: they all want to be the first to flash. Or perhaps if the males all flash together they have a better chance of being noticed, and the females can make better comparisons.
The fireflies do not always flash in
unison. They may flash in waves across hillsides, and at other times
will flash randomly. Synchrony occurs in short bursts that end with
abrupt periods of darkness.
As the season begins, a few insects
start flashing, then more join the display as the days pass. They reach a
"peak" when the greatest number of insects are displaying. After peak,
the numbers gradually decline each day until the mating season is over.
Since 1993, this peak date has occurred at various times from the third
week of May to the third week in June.
During the two week long mating season,
the quality of individual nightly displays can be affected by
environmental factors. On misty, drippy evenings following rainfall, the
insects may not readily display. Cool temperatures, below 50º
Fahrenheit, will also shut down the display for the night. Moon phase
has been observed to affect the timing of nightly displays-on nights
with a bright moon, the insects may begin flashing a bit later than


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Click the Functions tab to examine information about the generic functions and methods defined on the current class. The functions view shown in Displaying function information in the Class Browser appears.
Figure 8.10 Displaying function information in the Class Browser
This view can be especially useful when used in conjunction with the Generic Function Browser. The areas available are described below.
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Psychiatrist Daniel Carlat, in his book Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry writes:
The tradition of psychological curiosity has been dying a gradual death, and the DSM is part cause, part consequence of this transformation of our profession. These days psychiatrists are less interested in 'why' and more interested in 'what'.
In an excellent NYT piece on the subject, Not Diseases, but Categories of Suffering, the author states:
And as any psychiatrist involved in the making of the D.S.M. will freely tell you, the disorders listed in the book are not "real diseases," at least not like measles or hepatitis. Instead, they are useful constructs that capture the ways that people commonly suffer.
He goes on to say that the problem with DSM is that it has been taken
"too seriously." This is reflected by the fact that even though these diagnoses
are artificial constructs, they dictate who does and who does not receive
treatment. In other words, if you meet diagnostic criteria you are suffering
enough to get help. If not, you're on your own.
Four-year-old David's mother, Alice, described him as
"explosive." She told of a typical scene- a request to get ready for
bed was met with a firm "no," and soon mother and child were head to
head in battle. An hour later, David was kicking and screaming on the floor and
Alice was crying, horrified with herself for having threatened to hit him. Similar scenes occured several times a day.
Rather than launching right in to "what to do" I took some
time to listen to Alice's story while David played on the floor. Many things
emerged, but most striking was the fact that the family had moved three times
in the past year after David's father, Ron, lost his business, leaving the
family in financial ruin. Ron had been severely depressed, but according to
Alice, they were settled now and he had a good job. When I commented that it
sounded like a very stressful year, she immediately responded with,"Yes,
but we didn't let it affect David."
From my position, this clearly seemed impossible. Such an experience
is inevitably stressful for a four-year-old child. But for some reason, Alice,
who was an intelligent woman, did not see it. Perhaps she felt so much guilt,
or even shame, about what had happened to her family that she could not let herself
recognize this truth.
I saw my task at that moment as helping Alice to understand David's
experience, to recognize that his increasingly frequent battles for control
were likely in part due to feeling things were out of control for whole past
year. But I needed help Alice recognize this without increasing her guilt and
shame. It was a difficult and sensitive procedure.
When I saw them two weeks later, the explosive episodes had
significantly decreased. Alice told me that his behavior no longer seemed so
bewildering to her. Rather than getting angry, she listened to him, yet set
more firm limits. She was delighted with the results and felt proud of her
ability to regain a sense of joy and stability in her relationship with her
The research coming from the field of infant mental health offers a way to make sense of this change. It gives us a completely different model from DSM for both understanding and treatment. Ed Tronick, a leading
researcher in developmental psychology who is perhaps best known for developing
the still face paradigm, has
described mutual regulation model.
The MRM(mutual regulation model) stipulates that caregivers/mothers and infants/children are linked subsystems of a dyadic system and each component, infant and caregiver/mother, regulate disorganization and its costs by a bidirectional process of behavioral signaling and receiving.
The still face paradigm, in which a mother interacts face to face with
her infant as she usually would, then for a two minute period presents a
completely still face, followed by a reunion episode of resumed face to face
interaction, in Dr. Tronick's words "demonstrates the costliness of an
experimental disruption of the mutual regulatory process...as it serves as a
model for the stress inherent in normal interactions."
In other words, it is impossible to understand the behavior of a child
without looking at the behavior in the context of this mutually regulating or
dysregulating relationship.
Another leading researcher in the field, Arietta Slade, has written
extensively about what is referred to as parental reflective functioning. This
is also described as "holding a child's mind in mind."It refers to a parent's capacity to reflect on the meaning of her child's
behavior. Slade, along with other researchers, has shown how enhancing a
parent's capacity for reflective functioning is associated with many positive
outcomes for a child's emotional development, including flexibility, cognitive
resourcefulness and the ability to manage complex social situation.
When things go well in my office, supporting a parent's efforts to reflect upon the meaning of her child's behavior, as I did with David, is
simply the point of entry. Once the child feels understood, he becomes calm.
Evidence indicates that this change is on a neurobiological basis, occurring at
the level of the structures of the brain that produce stress hormones.
When a
child is calm, a parent begins to feel better about herself. In fact, often a
child's out of control behavior itself produces a feeling of shame in a
parent. When parent and child are more in control, this sense of shame
decreases. In turn, when a parent feels less shame, and less stress, she can
think more clearly. She is better able to reflect on the meaning of her child's
behavior. In turn a child feels even more calm and in control. This is what is meant by mutual regulation.
Any parent-child pair who is suffering in this way deserves to get help.
DSM V might have some role if it is used simply as a way to guide thinking. One of its original aims was to offer a structure for clinicians to recognize similarities and differences among their patients and to talk to one another about them. (The DC 0-3, a similar document, includes a relationship classification and offers a much more comprehensive model for understanding emotional problems.)
But that is not how it is used. It is essentially a document that rations care. The issue of the elimination of the diagnosis of Asperger's is a complex one and beyond the scope of this post. However, the frequently made objection that people who have this diagnosis will no longer be eligible for help, supports this way of understanding the DSM.
If DSM, then, is a care-rationing document, the solution is not to spend years refining the categories. The solution is to improve access to care.


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Idaho Grapples with Civil Commitment, Budget
BOISE, Idaho — It took seven years and three directors in the state corrections office to make it happen, but the design-development phase is completed for the Idaho Department of Correction's planned mental medical health facility.
The $48 million mental medical health unit — the first of its kind in the state — will be located in Boise, and is being designed by San Francisco-based KMD Architects. The facility will feature 300 beds for male and female inmates housed in separate areas, as well as separate circulation for mentally ill inmates.
However, while the facility has been approved by the state legislature, plans for the actual construction of the facility are on hold while Idaho grapples with its 2010 fiscal year budget, says John MacAllister, the director at KMD who got the ball rolling on the design component.
The facility is needed because Idaho has an above-average population of mentally ill inmates, says Mary Perrien, chief of education and treatment at the DOC. She explained that in Idaho, there is a law on the books that allows for mentally ill and civilly committed people who have been deemed dangerous to be assigned to DOC facilities.
"Sometimes courts will send people to correctional facilities when they are in the adjudication process to get an assessment done," Perrien says.
She added that presently there are only three beds system-wide that are allocated for such individuals.
"When I first got to Idaho that was one of my big concerns," Perrien says. "The treatment environment for those individuals that are currently housed in our maximum security prisons was rather alarming to me. Because there are so few of them they are often locked down more than other inmates and it did not seem to be a good therapeutic milieu."
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare operates the mental health facilities in the state. However, Perrien says that due to the security concerns associated with mentally ill inmates, that the DHW was supportive of the plan for the DOC to open its own facility.
There was also support in the Idaho state legislature and governor's office, but funding was difficult to secure. And so the project languished on the bureaucratic drawing board until KMD's MacAllister, who has built his career on designing "humane" prison settings, noticed an article on the project in Correctional News.
"I first became aware of Idaho's proposed stand-alone correctional mental health project in 2004 when I read in Correctional News that they had been trying for some years to get funding but were yet again unable to do so," MacAllister says. "I contacted the IDOC directly and began a dialogue with Pat Donaldson, their building operations manager.
KMD offered to provide a study to more clearly identify project operations, program and scope requirements, MacAllister says.
"When this was completed, the IDOC presented the resulting document to the state funding agency and it was again declined," he says.
MacAllister kept in contact with the DOC and KMD worked on the project again in 2007 after the DOC obtained state financing.
In 2009, an RFP was published and KMD teamed with the Boise-based LCA Architects a firm that had a strong relationship with the DOC. Under the partnership, LCA working as the architect of record while collaborating closely with KMD, which served as the architect of planning and design.
MacAllister, who has worked on numerous justice facilities projects, including California's secure treatment facility in Coalinga, says the Idaho project was programmatically more complex than similar facilities because it will house male and female inmates.
Additionally, he found that he was a servant to two masters with differing interests. First there was Perrien, whose emphasis was on mental health and treatment options, and then there was the DOC correctional administration, which was coming at the project from a purely correctional stance.
"This required an enormous focus on operational separations while maintaining a very tight budget," MacAllister says. "There was also a need to maximize the use of individual program and treatment space to ensure maximum utilization throughout the day and into the evening, which presented a scheduling and movement conundrum to the equation. In the end, I believe that we came up with a plan solution that answered most all of the DOC's concerns."
With the DOC's recidivism-reduction program, there will be a component of treatment at the new facility and inmates will have the opportunity to obtain a GED, Perrien says. Vocational development will also be offered to eligible inmates with training that targets employment opportunities in Idaho. Multipurpose space that can be reconfigured throughout the day to meet service needs for the population was added during the design phase.
KMD spent the bulk of its design efforts on the interior treatment environment to maximize the therapeutic aspects of the facility, MacAllister says. However, the exterior of the facility was less elaborate than originally planned because the DOC was cautious of how the public would perceive how its tax dollars are being spent in what is still a very harsh economy.
The design still includes natural light, access to the outdoors and views, the selective use of color and texture, and sensitivity to acoustics, to name a partial list of accoutrements.


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Briefly noted In The Great American Tax Dodge (Little, Brown, $22.95, ISBN 0316811351), Time Inc. senior writers Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele take on the inequities and iniquities of the American tax system. In the tradition of firebrand financial populism exemplified by William Greider's Who Will Tell the People?, they expose the loopholes that allow thousands of people with six-figure incomes to pay no income tax at all, as well as the fact that millions don't even file returns.
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Random House, $26.95, ISBN 037550317X), by Roger Lowenstein, narrates the inside-the-boardroom drama of the 1998 collapse of a hedge fund whose failure threatened to plunge the world's financial system into chaos. Lowenstein not only explains the excruciatingly complex dealings of the fund in clear layman's prose, he also spins a gripping and minutely detailed tale of the torturous negotiations among Wall Street titans and the Federal Reserve that led to a bailout involving $3.6 billion in private funding.
Howard Kurtz, dean of U.S. press critics, unmasks Wall Street's hype machine in The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Fame of Money, Media, and Manipulation (Free Press, $26, ISBN 0684868792). The role of financial media outlets like CNBC in whipping up the stock-trading frenzies of recent years was ripe for scrutiny, and Kurtz lays bare the log-rolling dynamics of a new media industry that needs overblown stock stories as badly as stock promoters do.
Journalist and entrepreneur E. Thomas Wood is working with author John Egerton on a book about Nashville.


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My mom is an excellent cook but there were times in my life I would think that maybe she wasn't so much. Like when she would make liver and onions. Or how about white sandwich bread with white hamburger gravy poured over it? I want to gag just thinking about it.
We lived in a house where choosing something else for dinner was not an option. If it was on the table you were expected to eat it, and that was that.
Our house is the same way. I'm not a short order cook and we have a rule where you have to at least take a bite of everything on your plate. With four kids sitting around the table, you can imagine we've had our fair share of resistance to eating some of the things I cook.
I was ready for the pouts and whines the other day when I placed a bowl of Kale Chips on the table. My friend Aggie raves about Kale Chips quite often and then Michelle published a post on her blog about them. With all the good things I've heard about Kale Chips and how even the most vegetable resistant kids love them, I thought I'd give them a try.
Let me end this blog post by saying this… 4 days later, Kale Chips have been baked each day. I love them, my husband loves them and the best yet… the kids love them. I'm so glad to know that my kids won't be blogging about the nasty green things their mom used to make them eat. Kale Chips, in this household, have been a hit!
What is a food your parents cooked that you dreaded seeing on the dinner table as a kid?
Recipe: Oven Baked Kale Chips (from What's Cooking with Kids)
- Bunch of kale
- Olive oil
- Salt, to taste
- Cracked black pepper (our addition but not required)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Hold the thick stem of each kale leaf with one hand. Pinch the base with the fingers of the other hand and rub them up the stem – the leaves will tear right off!
- Put the kale pieces on a baking sheet lined with a silpat (a silicone baking mat) or with parchment paper.
- Pour on a little olive oil and toss with clean hands. Sprinkle with salt (and pepper if your kids like that…)
- Make sure they are in a single layer on the baking sheet sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 12-14 minutes or until crisp.
You can find more great, kid friendly recipes like this in Michelle's new cookbook, The Whole Family Cookbook. Make sure to check it out!


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Alas, what TSF thought was a carefree summer trend towards long, unkempt hair has creeped into fall with Lukas Dlouhy leading the charge.
Ponytails can look alright — Xavier Malisse's is decent, while the half ponytails of Jurgen Melzer are so-so — but what Czech has done at this week's St. Petersburg Open makes him look like a Dr. Seuss creation. How could the tournament referee have let him play? If an official can ask Tommy Haas to change out of a sleeveless shirt, I'm sure they could have asked this guy to adjust his hair.
Scoreline: Dlouhy took out Pavel Chekhov in the first round match 7-6 (5), 6-4 but lost in straight sets to another crazy-haired ATPer, second seed Andy Murray, in the next round.
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Congratulations, Monday Readers!
The Super Bowl is over, and we muddled our way through it. Anyone who still hasn't seen the halftime show with Bruno Mars can watch it here. Anyone interested in what Richard Prince was doing during that time can find out here.
Meanwhile, according to the de Blasio groundhog, we've got more bad weather in store. People are freaking out.
Here's everything else you need to read this morning:
- Ralph Esmerian, current prisoner and former chairman of the Folk Art Museum, is serving a six-year sentence for fraud. In order to appease his creditors, Sotheby's hosted an auction of works from Esmerian's private collection. The sale fetched $13 million. [Bloomberg]
- More Sotheby's news: In order to keep up with auction-house rival Christie's, it seems Sotheby's might be opening up an office in India "soon," though we're not sure when "soon" will actually be. [The Economic Times]
- Lots of Modigliani fakes out there, and there's no inventory of his work that's trustworthy or complete. That's created a lot of problems in the Modigliani market, which are reported here. [The New York Times]
- Two doge-lovers find true love at last when they meme-speak post-coitus. (This one's so NSFW.) [Reddit]
- Philip Seymour Hoffman has died at age 46. The Wire has a nice summary of the great performances that would have been. [The Wire]
- 5,000 words on Ezra Klien, Wonkblog, his love of charts, and his new news venture. Worth a read. [New York Magazine]
- The never-ending debate on separating art from artist rages on as Woody Allen's daughter candidly discusses the details of her reported abuse. [Salon]
- Contemporary art and the Church of England. [Frieze]


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In response to my summary on trade and prices, DM asks an important question, which goes right to the heart of the debate on globalization:
Let us say an new barber moves into my neighborhood. He offers the same quality service as my old barber, but is cheaper. So I use the new barber.
A factory in China can make the the same socks, but for less than a factory in North Carolina. So I decide to buy my socks from China.
Why is it that Dani wants interfere with my sock purchases, but not where I get my haircut?
First of all, let me be clear that I am not advocating that we interfere with purchases of socks from China (or anywhere else) as a rule. But I do believe there are circumstances under which such an interference would be warranted--and that is why DM's question is germane. Elaborating on why gives me an opportunity to revisit a theme I have already written on.
DM thinks we should not apply a different set of standards to exchanges involving international trade than we do to those that are purely domestic. I agree! What I think he overlooks is that in fact we do encumber domestic exchanges with a lot of restrictions, and in some cases even outright prohibitions. Domestic laws prevent you from selling yourself into bondage, to hire out your children for factory work, to flout minimum wage requirements, to exceed maximum hours of work, to employ workers in conditions that violate mandated health and safety requirements, and so on. DM's new barber would not remain in business long were he not to comply with standards set by the local health board--regardless of whether DM would want to use him or not. These are instances of what the political philosopher Michael Walzer has called "blocked exchanges." In each of these instances, one could have made an argument that it is improper for the state to come in between two consenting adults. Maybe DM thinks these domestic restrictions should be removed as well. But no matter. The point is that restrictions do exist in domestic exchanges as well. Individuals are never completely free to sign certain contracts.
The reasons that we routinely restrict and regulate domestic exchanges are manifold. Sometimes we do so to uphold deeply held norms and values (as with anti-slavery laws). Sometimes we want to redress bargaining imbalances (as with a lot of labor legislation). Sometimes we worry about informational shortcomings (as with health and safety standards). When we try to disassociate international trade from such concerns, we in fact create a double standard: it is not OK for me to displace American workers by employing child labor at home, but it becomes OK for me to do the same by employing child labor abroad. (A society may of course choose to condone the latter after due consideration of the alternatives for children in the exporting country; my argument is just that there cannot be an automatic presumption to that effect.)
There are of course many instances when international trade does not impinge on social and moral considerations at home, and such difficulties do not arise. But treating international trade just like domestic exchanges does raise difficult questions of fairness and distributive justice. It is hardly a solid justification for free trade.


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Sony Ericsson: why we chose Windows
America calling
Mobile World Congress Why has Sony Ericsson 'succumbed' to Microsoft? The way the company's CTO Mats Lindoff explained it to us, is that you can't crack the US market without it. He was giving El Reg a glimpse into the future.
"We need products in all categories, maybe not in the ultra-low segment, but a broad portfolio. Windows Mobile in the US and in Nordic countries is the IT manager's choice."
Lindoff doesn't expect the Windows-powered Xperia to be a volume seller. Sony Ericsson is going for the "techie" niche which wants high performance and is willing to meet a high price to get it.
"It's not that UIQ can't deliver," Lindoff said. SE has put UIQ, a graphical user interface built on the Symbian OS, into two excellent new handsets, in the mid-range for the first time. The only serious disappointment with the G700 and G900 is that we won't be able to get hold of them until the end of the summer. They're as slim as the mid-range favourites like the K800i that they replace, but much more powerful – with touchscreens and (in the case of the G900) Wi-Fi.
Sony Ericsson stopped making CDMA handsets three years ago, but Lindoff doesn't think this will handicap its latest parry into North America, where 50 per cent of the market now uses CDMA. The Xperia X1 is GSM/W-CDMA. SE's parent company Ericsson is showing LTE at 25Mbits/s, Lindoff pointed out - and is happy to wait.
Tech bets
The main strategic bet is on DLNA, or the Digital Living Network Alliance, which is producing specifications for home media interoperability, built on UPnP.
Phones will be able to act as a universal remote control and sling photos around the house next year, Lindoff predicted.
He said much of his work involved pulling R&D out of parent Sony into the handset division, and trying to make it smaller and less power-intensive on the way. An example is the C902 Cybershot imaging phone, which began life as a Sony research project.
Two minor innovations which got a lot of excitement here in Barcelona are Tap To Focus (you obviously need a touchscreen phone like the new UIQ models) and face detection - that automatically finds a face in an image and focuses on it.
How well does it works for eyepatch-wearing pirates? We have no idea. But Tap To Focus is so obvious in retrospect, you wonder why nobody thought of it before. ®


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Economic and Social Council
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This council is composed of 54 members elected by the General Assembly to three-year terms. It works under the authority of the General Assembly and seeks to promote progress in terms of higher standards of living, full employment, and economic and social viability; it also seeks solutions to international socioeconomic, health, and other problems through international and cultural cooperation. Finally, it advocates for the universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all.


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Somalia, with help from its African neighbors, is trying to re-establish a central government in Mogadishu. But since the state's collapes in 1991, many citizens of the country have had to establish roots elsewhere. A pair of Somalis in Nairobi are trying to establish a film company in neighboring Kenya.
In the Somali neighborhood of Eastleigh, in the eastern suburbs of Nairobi, two businessmen have launched a Somali film production company called Eastleighwood.
Ahmed Shariff, one of the founders, hopes to change people's impressions of Somali society. "What has been dominant in the mass media outside was an image that represents a people that are violent and extremists, people who are starving to death. With Eastleighwood, what we want to show is the other side of the story," he said.
Eastleighwood aims to fill in the gaps by depicting the everyday lives of Somalis, mainly of those living in the diaspora.
Hassan Abdul, an Eastleighwood actor, fled his Somali hometown of Kismayo in 2003. Still under the control of al-Shabab militants, residents of Kismayo are forbidden from listening to music or watching movies. Now in Nairobi, Hassan is free to pursue his career as an actor and singer. "We are trying [to] make Somali movies, talking about love, talking about culture, Somali culture, talking about the reality, the reality in Somalia," he said.
Love is Blind, a film currently in production, tells the story of a blind girl living in Eastleigh who is courted by three different men. It illustrates key themes in the lives of the diaspora, such as the vital financial remittances sent from the U.S. and Europe that support many in Eastleigh.
With limited funding, almost everyone who works on the films is a volunteer. The production sets are often crewmembers' homes and the actresses double as singers.
Though Eastleighwood is not turning a profit yet, many see opportunity in Somali-language programming. The audience is global. In Somalia's two decades of statelessness, millions have fled the country and settled abroad. There are now more Somalis living outside Somalia than within.
Iman Burran, the chairman of Eastleighwood, knows this well. "My mom lives in LA, my brother also lives in California, my other brother lives in the UK, my younger brother lives in Lahore, Pakistan, so you see we are global, so Eastleighwood is targeting a global Somali community," he said.
Four films are currently in production. When complete, they will broadcast on two Somali satellite TV stations reaching Somalis from Mogadishu to Minneapolis.
Somalia is a place that is largely captured by images of war and famine. Eastleighwood hopes to show something markedly different, that there is great diversity in the Somali people and their stories no matter where they are living now.


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My longest and tallest brick wall concerns my 3rd great grandfather, George Rice Price PARRY.
I first found mention of George on the birth certificate of his son, Thomas Rice Price PARRY. Thomas was born on the 3rd of October 1837 in Holywell, Flintshire. His parents were listed as George Rice Price PARRY, tailor from Holywell, New Road, and Ann OWENS. Note Ann is listed as Ann OWENS not Ann PARRY previously OWENS so I don't think they were married.
Using this I was able to locate the family in 1841 living on New Road in Holywell.
(HO107/1413 Book 7 Folio 20 Page 32 lines 1 to 4).
As you can see George and Ann were not born in Flintshire, and the estimated birth date for George is 1816 ± 5 years.
Again, using Thomas in the search, I found the family living in Chester Street, Holywell, in the 1851 census.
(HO107/2500 Folio 250 Page 2)
The family has grown, and you can see that George is shown as George R P Parry, a tailor who was born in the Isle of Man around 1813.
In 1861 George is found in St Asaph workhouse – he is still married, and the rest of the family are not in the workhouse with him. Again his place of birth is given as the Isle of Man, this time the estimated birth year is 1810.
(RG9/4297 Folio 27 Page 3)
When I discovered that he was in the workhouse I contacted Flintshire Record Office. Steven Davies, archivist, provided me with the following information:
He first appears on Wednesday 7th March 1860. His full name is given as "George Rice Price Parry", classed as an "old and infirm man" for dietary purposes, given the number 14-1 and admitted by the order of Thomas Griffiths.
The cause of seeking relief is "bad eyes" and the parish responsible for his relief is Denbigh. His first meal on admittance was supper.
He discharges himself on 16th April 1860 and is described as "of good character"
He is re-admitted on 16th January 1861. The details are the same though he is now written as "George R P Parry" and the cause of relief is described as "blindness".
He discharges himself again on 22nd April 1861. Then he is re-admitted again on Saturday October 26th 1861. Again the details are the same though the cause of relief is "Bad Sight" - so the earlier blindness was not permanent or maybe was exaggerated by the workhouse records. This time he is admitted by order of the Overseer of Denbigh.
He again discharges himself, on 14th November 1861. There are no other 1861 entries. There are no other family members mentioned in all of this.
In 1871, for some unknown reason, I found George living in a boarding house in Bradford, Yorkshire.
(RG10/4461 Folio 68 Page 18)
He is recorded as 'George R P Parry' so I have got the right man, but he is describing himself as a 'widow', while Ann and the rest of the children are still living in Holywell. However, she is also describing herself as a 'widow', so perhaps it was a 'poor-mans' divorce. There is a family rumour though that he 'ran off to London to buy cloth and was never seen or heard of again'. He is shown as a tailor, born in the Isle of Man in about 1810.
This is the last I've found of him on census records.
I couldn't locate a marriage for George and Ann (having used FreeBMD to search for George PARRY and OWENS/OWEN from Sept. 1837 to Dec 1871 all counties/all districts), nor could I locate a likely death entry on the GRO.
So I went back to the beginning. As the only three constants were:
Name: George Rice Price Parry
Occupation: Tailor
Place of Birth: Isle of Man
I focused my search on finding a baptism between the years 1810 and 1816 in the Isle of Man. Thanks to the help of some rootschat-ers a possible baptism was located in the parish registers of St Matthew, Douglas. There was only one problem – the name of the child was George Rice Price OWEN.
Film Ref: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2MG-B7X.
He was the son of John OWEN and Ann, who was baptised on the 11th of September 1812. A rootschat member who is well versed in parish registers from the Isle of Man had a look at the entry and told me that, in his opinion, the parents were not married. If they were the image ought to have contained the mother's maiden name. There are no other baptisms for children with a father called John OWEN or OWENS
I'm 99% certain that George Rice Price PARRY started life as George Rice Price OWEN. However, this in itself raises questions.
If anyone can give me a clue as to an answer for any of the above I'd be grateful. Also, as I've no idea where to go from here all suggestions are welcome……
Carole Steers
Member 1060


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The shock of Sandy is still rippling across the northeastern United States. But in the microcosm of New York City, we can already see who's going to bear the brunt of the damage. As Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, floodwaters have a way of exposing the race and class divisions that stratify our cities.
Though some bus and subway service is returning, many neighborhoods dependent on public transportation remain functionally shuttered. Not surprisingly, recent surveys show that Metropolitan Transit Authority ridership consists mostly of people of color, nearly half living on less than $50,000 a year in one of the world's most expensive cities.
It's true that Sandy's path of destruction was to some extent an equal opportunity assault, pummeling the trendiest downtown enclaves and blighted neighborhoods alike. But residents' levels of resilience to the storm—the capacity to absorb trauma—will likely follow the sharp peaks and valleys of the city's economic landscape.
Even before the storm, inequities arose in the city's disaster preparations. Many public-housing residents who stayed behind in evacuation zones were preemptively blacked out, left without elevators, heat or hot water. Meanwhile, once again, in a repeat of Hurricane Irene, the city was criticized for shamelessly denying the incarcerated at Rikers Island an adequate evacuation plan.
Now, floodwaters have ravaged the Lower East Side—a historical bastion of immigant social movements and a dense community of low-income people of color, mostly of Latino and Asian descent. Hundreds have taken shelter at a local school, community service organizations are struggling to stabilize neighborhoods, and some Chinatown activists have reported ugly run-ins with the police during their relief efforts.
Endemic social tensions may intensify as households and communities across lower Manhattan and the outer boroughs face both a transportation shutdown and large-scale displacement: public schools closed, battered storefronts practically abandoned. Many struggling residents will be depending on emergency food rations. In outlying areas such as Far Rockaway, seniors and people with disabilities are especially endangered by power outages combined with physical isolation. In old neighborhoods such as the historic Coney Island district, workers and local small businesses are further hobbled by a lack of insurance.
Now commuter routes are gradually coming back online, but not fast enough to meet the needs of those New Yorkers who can least afford to miss a day of work. The Transportation Equity Atlas of the Pratt Center for Community Development clearly maps out just how long and contorted commutes can be for the poor and people of Hispanic commuters have rides 12 percent longer.
In addition, as the Pratt Center's director of policy, Joan Byron, told Working In These Times via email, the economic impact of the transit shutdown will be "more severe on low- and moderate-income workers, who have fewer options for taking time off or flexing their workplace and schedules." Some might lose income because their workplaces are closed, and others could face the burden of "having to find childcare if your workplace is open but your kids' school is closed."
Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism notes that across the five boroughs, which span an "income disparity as high as China," the hardest-hit workers belong to the forgotten ranks of "the janitors, the cooks and delivery men, the people who run newsstands and dry cleaners and cobblers and food carts" and the health care workers who respond to day-to-day emergencies. The most neglected survivors will presumably be those who lack insurance, those living paycheck to paycheck, those without the legal know-how and social supports needed to navigate systems of disaster relief.
Sandy's uneven impact isn't isolated to the United States; in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the destruction was especially acute in areas with deeper poverty and weaker infrastructure. Globally, the disaster highlights the irony that the poorest typically contribute far less to environmental damage than the elite, but face the worst environmental burdens (though they also manage in some places to respond and resist through innovative grassroots environmental initiatives).
But even within supposedly prosperous U.S. cities, natural disasters compound manufactured inequality. The aid effort following another disaster in New York, the September 11 attacks, was undermined by the government's profound disconnect from the poor. A report by the Urban Justice Center found that after 9/11 hit local communities with huge job losses, "the main problem with disaster aid was not that too many individuals and families sought aid; to the contrary, despite potential eligibility, many economic victims we interviewed did not seek and were not receiving disaster aid at all." In other words, entrenched economic and bureaucratic barriers ushered in a second wave of trauma for immigrants and the poor.
There's one potential ray of light in the aftermath of Sandy: a wake-up call for a massive public investments to beef up the city's defenses against climate change. A strong transit system is integral to an environmentally sustainable urban grid. And a targeted overhaul of New York's creaky bus and subway lines could deliver equity to low-income neighborhoods in two ways: greater access to good jobs in other areas, and investment in decent local transit and construction jobs that help make neighborhoods more economically and ecologically resilient. Veronica Vanterpool of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, which advocates for equitable regional transit policies, tells In These Times that transit is sometimes glossed over in the debates about creating so-called green jobs in both building and operating mass transit systems. In fact, she said, "transit equity does encompass… increased opportunity to these [job] fields that traditionally have not been marketed to these marginalized communities."
In the immediate aftermath, however, recovery work—from restoring electricity to rebuilding homes—will be grueling, hazardous and handled by unions that often come under political and economic siege. As Jamilah King points out at Colorlines.com, workers in the city's transit union, long a bulwark of black and Latino labor (and of militant public-sector organizing) will lead the repair of a city whose politicians have been steadily eroding their working conditions and benefits.
New York will survive Sandy, but so will the city's persistent inequalities and environmental precarity. So when the electricity comes back on, working people should understand that before the next crisis hits, they need to leverage the devastation to generate new political and economic power.